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bush, ronald reagan was in the white house ronald reagan of take naps during the middle of the day fame, he was president of the united states while john sununu was governor and he probably never would have said of ronald reagan that he is lazy. >> that's a really really good point you make. because you could legitimately say he did not prepare for the debate. >> certainly on style points. but when you take a look at barack obama substancively, the man -- this is a part of a right-wing theme that has been going on out there, mean, i hate that word but this is part of a right-wing theme that said that barack obama is not prepared to be president of the united states, he is the dumbest president of the united states i heard a woman say on the radio, and i think we know who the dumbest president of the united states was -- >> you don't have to go that far far back. >> i think to call him a dumb man is not credible. this is not the first time that john sununu did this. we have some sound from earlier in the year. >> let me tell you what the big problem with this president is in my opinion,
bush, ronald reagan was in the white house ronald reagan of take naps during the middle of the day fame, he was president of the united states while john sununu was governor and he probably never would have said of ronald reagan that he is lazy. >> that's a really really good point you make. because you could legitimately say he did not prepare for the debate. >> certainly on style points. but when you take a look at barack obama substancively, the man -- this is a part of a...
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exactly what ronald reagan did! >> whoa, whoa, careful, bill! how dare you invoke the name the holy one! >> bill: that's exactly -- i think the president is right on. how about you. 1-866-55-press. let's talk about it. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 24 minutes after the hour. congresswoman karen bass joining us in studio in the next segment. we're talking about president obama taking his show on the road to get the support of the american people for a tax cut -- you wouldn't think you would have to go out and put pressure on congress to give 98% of americans a tax cut. but it shows you how out of touch with the american people, the republican leadership in congress particularly are. peter, what have we got going on? >> online, we're not only tweeting at bp show. we're in the chat room. current.com/billpress. barbara in d.c. in the chat room says republicans used to put country fi
exactly what ronald reagan did! >> whoa, whoa, careful, bill! how dare you invoke the name the holy one! >> bill: that's exactly -- i think the president is right on. how about you. 1-866-55-press. let's talk about it. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 24 minutes after the hour....
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ronald reagan got the lead out of our gasoline. george bush went after acid rain >> bill: i was in the state legislature as an aide when ronald reagan signed the wild rivers bill in california. i come back to that. republicans were the leaders of the conservation movement. >> they have pivoted away from their party's history and conservative thought as well because ronald reagan, himself asked the question: what is a conservative, after all, but one who con serves? and he can owed roosevelt in talking about the legacy we leave to our children. >> when did that happen, and how did this become such a political issue when it's really not something to be. >> the biggest corporate plumers in the country have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on capitol hill and pumping up campaign coffers is entails among them the koch brothers? >> absolutely >> bill: some of the biggest polluters, cokekoch industries. bob dean -- bobdines. i'm sorry. we are talking climate change, not so much politics but it gets involved in here. join the conversa
ronald reagan got the lead out of our gasoline. george bush went after acid rain >> bill: i was in the state legislature as an aide when ronald reagan signed the wild rivers bill in california. i come back to that. republicans were the leaders of the conservation movement. >> they have pivoted away from their party's history and conservative thought as well because ronald reagan, himself asked the question: what is a conservative, after all, but one who con serves? and he can owed...
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. >> bill: they say we're doing this in the legacy of ronald reagan. bull you know what. ronald reagan raised taxes five times. >> reagan would have no place in the current republican party given some of the things they did. grover norquist holds him up as an icon. grover is in a completely different place than he is on taxes. >> bill: why don't the media expose these people as the liars and hypocrites that they are? >> because they're fair and balanced. >> bill: so are we going over the fiscal cliff? >> i think we are. i think we are. for a couple of reasons. one, there's not a whole lot of time. it is six weeks from tomorrow to the start -- >> bill: they don't have any backbone. >> that's number two. number three 80 lame ducks who may not show up to vote. plus you've got this stale -- continuing stalemate on tax and spending policies and then on top of everything else, it is not really a fiscal cliff. it is a fiscal slope. it stays in place. they called it a cliff but the damage to the economy the real damage only happens if you expose it. >> bill: stan collender, check
. >> bill: they say we're doing this in the legacy of ronald reagan. bull you know what. ronald reagan raised taxes five times. >> reagan would have no place in the current republican party given some of the things they did. grover norquist holds him up as an icon. grover is in a completely different place than he is on taxes. >> bill: why don't the media expose these people as the liars and hypocrites that they are? >> because they're fair and balanced. >> bill:...
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sam donaldson wasn't interrupting ronald reagan. >> that's the difference. anyway, more of the bill press show on the other side of this break. a lot to talk about, including eric holder. will he be held in contempt today? >> this is the bill press show. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> good morning, everybody. david shuster here sitting in for bill press on the bill press show on current. this is wednesday, june the 20th. what a great hour we have coming ahead. this is the day when eric holder will face a contempt vote in the u.s. house of representatives. this relates to documents that the justice department is not turning over to republican darryl isa, documents about internal justice department deliberations over that fast and furious gun-running program. we will talk about the politics and whether this is actually good for republicans or not. and perhaps it might actually be good for democrats, and i will explain. also, this is the hour when we are going to talk about something incredibly bizarre that happened on the capitol beltway. people sawthought they we
sam donaldson wasn't interrupting ronald reagan. >> that's the difference. anyway, more of the bill press show on the other side of this break. a lot to talk about, including eric holder. will he be held in contempt today? >> this is the bill press show. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> good morning, everybody. david shuster here sitting in for bill press on the bill press show on current. this is wednesday, june the 20th. what a great hour we have coming ahead. this is the day when...
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bush nor ronald reagan could get through an election in the republican party. [ technical difficulties ] >> we finished by smashing his guitar on the stage walked off, and the next morning his band announced he was in rehab. the mars rover is still chugging along. it is stopping along the way when it's cameras find something to look at. it found a pyramid shaped rock over the weekend. they pulled out its robotic arm to look closely. >> bill: i ran into a neighborhood of ours yesterday, who is a nasa scientist. i said did you ever get to that mountain? and he said no it takes a long time but we found this great rock yesterday. [ laughter ] >> i love it. white house report tells us that the vice president stopped in at a cafe. ordered food, and offered to buy food for the press corps following him, but they declined. >> bill: isn't that where he said this tastes like a half smoke. he knows his sausage from chicago. 15 minutes after the hour yes, indeed it was a big news on friday. when politicians want to get bad news out they do it on a friday afternoon, it's called in the trade -- i'm
bush nor ronald reagan could get through an election in the republican party. [ technical difficulties ] >> we finished by smashing his guitar on the stage walked off, and the next morning his band announced he was in rehab. the mars rover is still chugging along. it is stopping along the way when it's cameras find something to look at. it found a pyramid shaped rock over the weekend. they pulled out its robotic arm to look closely. >> bill: i ran into a neighborhood of ours...
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yesterday, as soon as she died, everybody said oh, my god you know like ronald reagan, she walked on water. she's a conservative. we should all follow. of course, they say that about ronald reagan who could probably not get elected today in a republican party primary. you say the same thing about maggie thatcher? the iron lady? >> well, a conservative politician to be sure and one who certainly in england divides people and there's been some celebrations in some places in england about her death. so a big leader, a world leader. >> bill: but not everybody loved her. >> right. not everybody loved her. in the states, she is really an idol for a lot of republicans. you heard sarah palin famelessly proclaim she looks up to maggie thatcher. of course, before 2008, she didn't know who maggie thatcher was. "vanity fair" profile. >> bill: she couldn't see her. >> wanted to meet her. but look -- >> bill: maggie wouldn't meet with her. she said it was beneath her. >> that was during the campaign. the question is how does she fit into the ideological mold of today's republicans. today's republi
yesterday, as soon as she died, everybody said oh, my god you know like ronald reagan, she walked on water. she's a conservative. we should all follow. of course, they say that about ronald reagan who could probably not get elected today in a republican party primary. you say the same thing about maggie thatcher? the iron lady? >> well, a conservative politician to be sure and one who certainly in england divides people and there's been some celebrations in some places in england about...
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george bush is not going replace ronald reagan as the heart throb of the republican party? >> i don't think so. it's only inevitable that he will be more appreciated as time goes by. >> bill: right. neil king is here as a friend of bill. join us with your comments at 866-55-press. >> announcer: on your radio, and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." ♪ i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle c
george bush is not going replace ronald reagan as the heart throb of the republican party? >> i don't think so. it's only inevitable that he will be more appreciated as time goes by. >> bill: right. neil king is here as a friend of bill. join us with your comments at 866-55-press. >> announcer: on your radio, and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." ♪ i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can...
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they've become so extreme says jeb bush that neither his father nor ronald reagan could get elected today in a republican primary. so let's throw the extremists out and get back to some good, sensible, moderate republicans who want to get things done. we'll talk about that and a whole lot more here on today's "full court press." here we get the latest from jacki schechner out in los angeles where she's got today's current news update. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. the department of justice says it plans to sue the state of florida for refusing to stop purging state voter rolls in violation of -- there we go. sorry about that. so the secretary of state basically saying that the laws are in place to -- for voting and the state has the legal right within nine days of general elections. [ indiscernible ] the secretary of state is suing the department of homeland security. i'm sorry, forgive me. they're allowed to collect donations via text message. they voted unanimously to allow people to give money through their mobile devices. both democrats and repub
they've become so extreme says jeb bush that neither his father nor ronald reagan could get elected today in a republican primary. so let's throw the extremists out and get back to some good, sensible, moderate republicans who want to get things done. we'll talk about that and a whole lot more here on today's "full court press." here we get the latest from jacki schechner out in los angeles where she's got today's current news update. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill....
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he said ronald reagan. what was reagan's success? when reagan took on big issues people believed that reagan believed it. >> right. >> they thought it was sincere and he was taking them to this new place because he really emotionally connected with it and intel he can't julie as well. i think obama if he does that can really have the ability to -- >> you have written about this and also realize he has does a have a mandate. >> that's important. understanding a mandate is a lot different than saying it. democrats, liberals love to say obama has a mandate. i don't think they even believe t they should. the fact of the matter is, as i said before, first president since ice enisenhower to be elected with more than 50%. got a 5 medical yon vote margin, overwhelming landslide in the electoral college. the senate races went better for democrats. 1.4 million people voted democratic than republican for the house. there is simply no question the people went to the polls in a referendum election given a clear choice and chose to give barack oba
he said ronald reagan. what was reagan's success? when reagan took on big issues people believed that reagan believed it. >> right. >> they thought it was sincere and he was taking them to this new place because he really emotionally connected with it and intel he can't julie as well. i think obama if he does that can really have the ability to -- >> you have written about this and also realize he has does a have a mandate. >> that's important. understanding a mandate is...
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reagan and tip o'neill. you saw that in the united states senate with leaders like tom daschle, and clint mitchell. because the fact is president obama can rightfully i believe blame john boehner and mitch mcconnell for unwilling -- an unwillingness to compromise and avoid the sequester, but the same time the reality is to get anything done, whether it is the fiscal crisis or passing a budget or avoiding the debt ceiling or doing something on gun safety or immigration reform or climate control, the president needs republican votes. i think he is doing -- i the he is absolutely doing the right thing. i get nervous about it right? sometimes. but on this i really do trust the president. he is not going to give away the store on this. he is going to insist that whatever resolution comes out of it, has to be an balanced approach, the simpson bowles approach. yes, spending cuts and yes, new revenue. and i think it's very significant by the way that dish told you i had a chance in las vegas to interview alan simpso
reagan and tip o'neill. you saw that in the united states senate with leaders like tom daschle, and clint mitchell. because the fact is president obama can rightfully i believe blame john boehner and mitch mcconnell for unwilling -- an unwillingness to compromise and avoid the sequester, but the same time the reality is to get anything done, whether it is the fiscal crisis or passing a budget or avoiding the debt ceiling or doing something on gun safety or immigration reform or climate control,...
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ronald reagan carried north dakota in a huge landslide. so people were on the republican side of the ticket voting for ronald reagan, came back over in large part, voted for me. i won with 57% that year. north dakotans are ticket splitters. they take a look at the candidate much more so than the party. although i must admit only two presidential candidates, two democratic presidential candidates in 100 years have gotten the votes of north dakota. they traditionally vote republican for president. but other than that, they're very choosy and they want someone they can trust someone they like and heidi heitkamp ran a great campaign. she will be a terrific senator. >> bill: you have been out of the senate now for two years. among other things, you're writing novels. and you have another one coming out. you've been working with a bipartisan policy center, particularly on the energy issue. and releasing your recommendations yesterday. to the congress and the president. what are you suggesting? what's the plan? >> as you know, it is very hard to
ronald reagan carried north dakota in a huge landslide. so people were on the republican side of the ticket voting for ronald reagan, came back over in large part, voted for me. i won with 57% that year. north dakotans are ticket splitters. they take a look at the candidate much more so than the party. although i must admit only two presidential candidates, two democratic presidential candidates in 100 years have gotten the votes of north dakota. they traditionally vote republican for...
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they look sort of adoringly at each other while the other one is talking, like nancy and ronald reagan match. of course, they were once pretty -- they were very arch rivals. >> yeah. there was not a lot of love lost there for a while. >> likeable enough. >> you are likeable enough hillary but they have become quite a team. and something terri of state last night saying how much she enjoyed it. >> one of the things that i say to people because i think it helps them understand i say, look. in politics and in democracy, sometimes you win e elections. sometimes you lose elections, and i worked very hard, but i lost and president obama asked me to be secretary of state, and i said, yes. and so this has been just an extraordinary opportunity to work with him as a partner and friend to do our very best on behalf of this country we both love, and it's something i am going to miss a great deal. >> bill: i think it was very bold of him to ask her and bold of her to accept and salutes to both of them. it's been a great team. i think she will go down, as the president said yesterday, as one of the
they look sort of adoringly at each other while the other one is talking, like nancy and ronald reagan match. of course, they were once pretty -- they were very arch rivals. >> yeah. there was not a lot of love lost there for a while. >> likeable enough. >> you are likeable enough hillary but they have become quite a team. and something terri of state last night saying how much she enjoyed it. >> one of the things that i say to people because i think it helps them...
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ronald reagan declared that. this is "the bill press show." at lysol, we go beyond cleaning, we call it healthing. healthing is killing germs, and having more cleaning power than bleach without the harshness. it's being the #1 pediatrician recommended brand. and sharing healthy habits in 65,000 schools. so, stop just cleaning. start healthing. >> on the agenda same-sex marriage and karl rove says he can see that the g.o.p. being pro-marriage equality. mayor bloomberg started a $12 million campaign to persuade certain key senators to vote for gun safety measures in the united states. mike bloomberg putting money on the live and wayne lapierre says he is insane. all of that and more coming up right here on current tv. iq will go way up. (vo) current tv gets the converstion started weekdays at >> i'm a slutty bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in
ronald reagan declared that. this is "the bill press show." at lysol, we go beyond cleaning, we call it healthing. healthing is killing germs, and having more cleaning power than bleach without the harshness. it's being the #1 pediatrician recommended brand. and sharing healthy habits in 65,000 schools. so, stop just cleaning. start healthing. >> on the agenda same-sex marriage and karl rove says he can see that the g.o.p. being pro-marriage equality. mayor bloomberg started a...
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. >> what about their pay saint ronald reagan? it was double digits. so bottom line is -- >> bill: i think obama's right. saying no, no, no, no. this is not something. we do not debate as he said yesterday, several times, we don't debate whether or not we're going to pay our bills. we're not a deadbeat nation. >> bill, for the listeners who may not know this and i'm sure many people do but for those who may not know, when we raise the debt ceiling we're not authorizing future spending. >> bill: good point. >> we're just paying the bills we've already acquired. we've already passed authorization bills and appropriation bills and the president signed the bill. we spent the money. this is just saying we're going to pay. okay. so like why wouldn't we want to do that? right? and so it is really sort of a ridiculous thing. i'm going to tell you, the progressive caucus, we're not against cuts. we have cuts that we think we'll go for. like -- >> bill: you've already done a lot of cuts. >> we've done $1.7 trillion in cuts. what if we did close some of the looph
. >> what about their pay saint ronald reagan? it was double digits. so bottom line is -- >> bill: i think obama's right. saying no, no, no, no. this is not something. we do not debate as he said yesterday, several times, we don't debate whether or not we're going to pay our bills. we're not a deadbeat nation. >> bill, for the listeners who may not know this and i'm sure many people do but for those who may not know, when we raise the debt ceiling we're not authorizing future...
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i was born a week -- eight days before ronald reagan's assassination attempt when he was shot by hinckley. and i was born at g. w. hospital, right down here in d.c. and so when that happened, i was still in the hospital. my mom was still in the hospital due to complications and so forth and my grandmother happened to be in town as well to visit her and to meet me. now, when he got shot, they took him to gw hospital. quick sidebar if you want to read an entire book about that, my colleague is amazing. but she said all of the doctors on her floor effectively disappeared for an extended period of time. she was extremely worried about me with her my grandmother couldn't get into the hospital that day. she was enraged because the security situation that happened over the next two weeks as a result of him being there. so my point is that divide between the federal side and the local side really does affect day-to-day life on a regular basis. everything turned out fine, obviously. i say obviously now. my point is that for people who say oh, well, what does that matter anyway? it can't be it is o
i was born a week -- eight days before ronald reagan's assassination attempt when he was shot by hinckley. and i was born at g. w. hospital, right down here in d.c. and so when that happened, i was still in the hospital. my mom was still in the hospital due to complications and so forth and my grandmother happened to be in town as well to visit her and to meet me. now, when he got shot, they took him to gw hospital. quick sidebar if you want to read an entire book about that, my colleague is...
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particularly when you have the federal government and the president, every president since ronald reagan has signed on to the war on drugs to my dismay. even barack obama is a former user. >> not just one product. >> bill: he of anybody would understand. >> how do we start? first of all we've already started. the trend is shifting. it has been shifting for quite some time now. so with colorado and washington states with marijuana we've already started. absolutely. but let's go back to 1933 when we ended alcohol prohibition. i don't think you had a whole lot of people sitting around saying how do we start? how do we end alcohol prohibition. you know what they did? they ended it. you know what? and then they managed it from there. what happened when they did it, immediately, al capone went out of business. he was no longer, you know, traveling where -- his cronies traveling the streets of chicago shooting up the place and you know, it was moms, mothers that really band together and said let's save our children. let's free our children from this bootleg industry. and become a part of it. an
particularly when you have the federal government and the president, every president since ronald reagan has signed on to the war on drugs to my dismay. even barack obama is a former user. >> not just one product. >> bill: he of anybody would understand. >> how do we start? first of all we've already started. the trend is shifting. it has been shifting for quite some time now. so with colorado and washington states with marijuana we've already started. absolutely. but let's go...
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three judges, one appoint by ronald reagan, wrote the opinion. another one by jimmy carter and then the third by h.w. >> bill: oh, wow. some old-timers here. >> and the only dissent which was a brilliant one by ruth bader ginsburg talked about the majority, you know, acting like ostriches. not really recognizing the reality of this. so i have some hope that it remains part of the legal fabric of america. i think it is going to be okay. >> bill: is the voting rights act in trouble? >> yeah. voting rights act is in trouble if the court like yesterday employed judicial restraint. if they do the same thing today it should be okay. if the voting rights act case comes down today. but i think that one is in trouble. >> bill: marriage equality. >> wow. this is going to be a whole new level of american jurisprudence. i actually believe that prop 8 is going to get knocked down. i believe the limitation on federal benefits, the he'd ith windsor -- the edith windsor case will get knocked down and we'll have a brand new substrate um of american jurisprudence.
three judges, one appoint by ronald reagan, wrote the opinion. another one by jimmy carter and then the third by h.w. >> bill: oh, wow. some old-timers here. >> and the only dissent which was a brilliant one by ruth bader ginsburg talked about the majority, you know, acting like ostriches. not really recognizing the reality of this. so i have some hope that it remains part of the legal fabric of america. i think it is going to be okay. >> bill: is the voting rights act in...
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ronald reagan. the kind of typical stuff obama is a tax and spend liberal. there are two areas he departed from rubio. one on defense spending where rand paul has been completely at odds with the republican party in saying the sequester that's looming should go through -- and if anything, we should cut the pentagon more and he was a little bit more liberal. that's really -- i think what -- >> bill: a libertarian position. >> right. i think he's trying to pick up this. he is the younger you know, in some ways, more appealing to the mainstream candidate than his father. i think he's trying to run in 2016 and raise his profile. this was an opportunity for him to do that. >> bill: right. not surprising there is very little difference between marco rubio and rand paul. white house pointed out marco rubio's speech could have been given by mitt romney. there was nothing new in it in terms of -- if he's the future of the republican party, it is going to look just like the past. >> it could have been given by any republican for the past 30 years. and there was nothin
ronald reagan. the kind of typical stuff obama is a tax and spend liberal. there are two areas he departed from rubio. one on defense spending where rand paul has been completely at odds with the republican party in saying the sequester that's looming should go through -- and if anything, we should cut the pentagon more and he was a little bit more liberal. that's really -- i think what -- >> bill: a libertarian position. >> right. i think he's trying to pick up this. he is the...
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reagan. >> that's quite a list. >> bill: i would like to have a meal with abraham lincoln. i was talking about there's no doubt about -- between mitt romney and barack obama which one you would rather have a beer with because with obama, you could really have a beer. [ laughter ] >> barack obama's probably the candidate that most wants to have a burger with you. the guy loves burgers. >> bill: he does. >> and beer. >> start your engines. we told you about this a couple of months ago. the texas highway with the 85-mile-per-hour speed limit opened yesterday. it is final 41 mile stretch of highway 130 between austin and san antonio meant to help alleviate traffic on interstate 35. fastest speed limit in the nation and day one seemed to go well. no speeding tickets or accidents yet. >> bill: imagine if you were on the road and going about 15 miles per hour. you would get run over. >> i grew up in montana. for a long time, montana didn't have a speed limit. it was a little while. >> that's why you got here on time this morning. >> i drive very fast. you don't drive slow in monta
reagan. >> that's quite a list. >> bill: i would like to have a meal with abraham lincoln. i was talking about there's no doubt about -- between mitt romney and barack obama which one you would rather have a beer with because with obama, you could really have a beer. [ laughter ] >> barack obama's probably the candidate that most wants to have a burger with you. the guy loves burgers. >> bill: he does. >> and beer. >> start your engines. we told you about...
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ronald reagan said i'm up to my keester in leaks. john f. kennedy said this vessel leaks from the top. it is almost like nothing you can do about it. president obama has prosecuted six people for leaking government secrets or government information, i really should say. not really deep, dark secrets. at any rate, more than all other presidents combined. so the president said we ought to review our guidelines. he put eric holder in charge of reviewing those guidelines. talk about the fox in charge of the hen house. and then eric holder has said that he's told a couple of reporters at least that he's sorry because he realizes that he himself ok'd the james rosen investigation. he had recused himself from the a.p., still happened on his watch. but he personally approved the james rosen investigation personally approved capturing james rosen's personal e-mails. captured the records of his going in and out of federal -- any federal building including the state department here in washington, d.c. and acre holder said he realizes he went too far. h
ronald reagan said i'm up to my keester in leaks. john f. kennedy said this vessel leaks from the top. it is almost like nothing you can do about it. president obama has prosecuted six people for leaking government secrets or government information, i really should say. not really deep, dark secrets. at any rate, more than all other presidents combined. so the president said we ought to review our guidelines. he put eric holder in charge of reviewing those guidelines. talk about the fox in...